SOME call it the red devil. Others like the term firenado. For Janae Copelin who took this picture she says it is the ‘coolest/scariest’ thing she has ever seen.

Copelin caught the natural phenomenon on camera as she was driving in Chillicothe, Missouri.

“Had such a wonderful weekend, but this had to be the coolest/scariest thing I’ve ever seen,” she wrote. “A farmer burning off his field and as we stopped so I could take a picture the wind whipped up this fire twister. #nofilter #firestorm #firetwister”.

“Thanks to my love of Instagram I chose to drive by and as I stopped to take a picture the wind whipped up the fire into this funnel,” Ms Copelin told KMCB. “The sound and heat were intense and a bit scary not knowing if it would stay put, but it only lasted a couple minutes.”

Fire whirls can reach up to 30 metres into the sky and like tornadoes are rapidly spinning vortexs.